Who are the Super PACs’ Biggest Donors? A Tangled Web: Who’s Making Money From All This Campaign Spending? How Nonprofits Spend Millions on Elections and Call it Public Welfare. Aug. 24: This story has been updated [2].
Watch Kim Barker discuss this investigation on CBS's Face the Nation [3]. Matt Brooks describes the mission of the Republican Jewish Coalition as educating the Jewish community about critical domestic and foreign policy issues. But the well-dressed crowd that gathered in May for a luncheon on the 24th floor of a New York law firm easily could have figured that the group had a different purpose: Helping Mitt Romney win the presidency. Brooks, the group's executive director, showed the 100 or so attendees two coalition-funded ads [4] taking aim [5] at President Barack Obama. Then Brooks made a pitch for a $6.5 million plan to help Romney in battleground states, reminding guests that their donations would not be publicly disclosed by the tax-exempt group. Investigative Reporters and Editors.